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Events

• 1791 (235 years ago) The Haitian slave revolution begins in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
• 1894 (132 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
• 1942 (84 years ago) Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
• 1968 (58 years ago) Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
• 2004 (22 years ago) Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2006 (20 years ago) Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.

Births

• 1760 (266 years ago) Pope Leo XII,
• 1862 (164 years ago) Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (died 1918)
• 1874 (152 years ago) Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (died 1928)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (died 1967)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (died 2003)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1997)
• 1920 (106 years ago) Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 2012)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 1241 (785 years ago) Pope Gregory IX, (born 1143)
• 1280 (746 years ago) Pope Nicholas III,
• 1485 (541 years ago) Richard III of England,
• 1922 (104 years ago) Michael Collins, Irish rebel, counter-intelligence and military tactician, and politician; 2nd Irish Minister of Finance (born 1890)
• 1958 (68 years ago) Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
• 1978 (48 years ago) Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (born 1894)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (born 1883)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Toto Cutugno, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1943)

All 394 events, births and deaths of August 22